If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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.
More Herodotus Quotes
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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 ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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 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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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