Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSFar 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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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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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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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