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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

Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love

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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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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