Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUSThe trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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