Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUSIt is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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