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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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 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
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love

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