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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

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner

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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