God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
HERODOTUSIt is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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