Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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