The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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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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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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