Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
HERODOTUSMany exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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