Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUSGreat things are won by great dangers.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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