Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
HERODOTUSThere is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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