How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
HERODOTUSOne 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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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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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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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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