Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
HERODOTUSThe period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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 better to be envied than pitied.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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