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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Herodotus

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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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