If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
HERODOTUSBut I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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