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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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