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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Herodotus

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
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
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War

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