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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

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUS

Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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.
HERODOTUS

Evil Fear Heart Suffering
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
HERODOTUS

Better Envy
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
HERODOTUS

Change Men Resistance
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUS

Falsehood Lying
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUS

Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUS

Convinced Nature See
It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS

Better Envy One Liner
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
HERODOTUS

Death Father Peace War
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUS

Country Egypt World
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUS

Friendship Material Value
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
HERODOTUS

History Imagination Movement War
Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUS

Business Failure Haste
Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUS

Death Happiness Himself Men

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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