Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUSIt is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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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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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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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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