Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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