Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUSVery 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 Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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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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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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