Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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 Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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