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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.

Herodotus

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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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

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