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.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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