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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

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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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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