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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Herodotus

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
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
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

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