Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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