Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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