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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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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Battle Fight Memories
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men

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