The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HERODOTUSLet there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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