The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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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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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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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But 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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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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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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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