Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
HERODOTUSIt is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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