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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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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Fortune Luck Men Side
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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.
HERODOTUS

Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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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Age Chilren Education

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