The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUSBut 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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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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