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.
HERODOTUSGreat things are won by great dangers.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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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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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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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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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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