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

Herodotus

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
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
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
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
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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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Forever History Time
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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Fortune Luck Men Side
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
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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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Himself Men Politics Rule
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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

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

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