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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.

Herodotus

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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember

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 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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