But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
HERODOTUSEnvy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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