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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.

Herodotus

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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
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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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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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Country Egypt World

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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