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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 the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
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
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
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
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

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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