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• Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

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  Business, Fall, Men

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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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  Heart, Evil, Suffering

  Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1996). “Histories”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

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• All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

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  Inspirational, Business, Men

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• If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

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  Happens, Ifs

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• As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

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  Together, Doe, Saws

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• 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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  Country, Hero, Men

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• Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

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  Dream, Incidents

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

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  Long, Trials, Disease

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• The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

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  God Love, Greater

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• My men have become women, but the women men.

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  Courage, Women, Men

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• Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

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  Honor, Shady, Possession

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• Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

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  Country, Shine On, Shining

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• There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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  Useless, Foolish, Outrage

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• The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

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  Eye, Ears, Trustworthy

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• A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

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  Friendship, Real, Joy

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• Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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  Military, Skills, Needs

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 3, Ch. 127, c. 440 BC.

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• To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

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  Life Is, Refuge

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, Book 7,

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• Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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  Change, Men, Resistance

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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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  Believe, Cases, Bounds

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 152, c. 440 BC.

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• In soft regions are born soft men.

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  Life, Men, Born

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, c. 440 BC.

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• A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

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  Believe, Men, Calumny Is

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• The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

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  Water, Joy, Greek

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, c. 440 BC.

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• Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

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  People, Inquiry, Action

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