Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSHistory is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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