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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

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy 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
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
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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

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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