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.
HERODOTUSEnvy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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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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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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