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
HERODOTUSAdversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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