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.
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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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