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.
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 deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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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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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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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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