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.
HERODOTUSAs 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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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