Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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