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

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst

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

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