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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

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Great things are won by great dangers.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
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
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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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Evil Fear Heart Suffering

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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