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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.

Herodotus

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials

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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