Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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