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It is better to be envied than pitied.

Herodotus

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Body Food Health Soul
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
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
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
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
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time

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