Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
HERODOTUSBefore a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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