A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
HERODOTUSThe wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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