Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUS
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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