Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
HERODOTUSUnless 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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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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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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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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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