All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUSThe Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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