Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUS
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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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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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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