In soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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