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.
HERODOTUSBut 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.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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