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

Herodotus

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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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Age Chilren Education
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth

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