The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUSWe are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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