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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

Herodotus

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUS

Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men

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