Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSSome 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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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