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.
HERODOTUSAs the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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