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.
HERODOTUSAll men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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 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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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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