We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUSThe 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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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