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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.

Herodotus

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself

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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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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