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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

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Great things are won by great dangers.

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

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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

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Nationality: Greek

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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