A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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