I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
HERODOTUS
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.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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