Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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