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

Herodotus

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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace 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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

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