Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUSIn peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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