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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

Herodotus

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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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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Country Egypt World
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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