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Herodotus

Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men

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