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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Herodotus

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy

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