A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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 worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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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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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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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 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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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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