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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Herodotus

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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 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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Fortune Luck Men Side
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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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Battle Fight Memories
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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

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