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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.

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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning

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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