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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

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
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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Ourselves Shine War
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
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth

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