Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUS
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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