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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

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
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
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge

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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