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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

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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
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 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
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule

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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