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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.

Herodotus

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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature

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