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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.

Herodotus

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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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Himself Men Politics Rule

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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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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