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.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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