The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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