The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
HERODOTUSUnless 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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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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