Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
HERODOTUSWhen life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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