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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Herodotus

It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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