The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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