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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

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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
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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy

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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