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.
HERODOTUSIt 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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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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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