Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSI know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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