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.
HERODOTUSMany exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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