Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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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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