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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.

Herodotus

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
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
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
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
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom

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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