Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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