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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
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The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
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I am going to talk at some length about Egypt, because it has very many remarkable features and has produced more monuments which beggar description than anywhere else in the world.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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484 BC
Died:
425 BC
(aged 59)
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