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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

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
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
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUS

Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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

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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