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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.

Herodotus

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill

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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