Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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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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