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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Herodotus

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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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst

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