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.
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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Unless 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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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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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