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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

But 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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
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.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom

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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