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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Herodotus

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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
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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Forever History Time
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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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