Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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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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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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