The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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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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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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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