A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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