He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
HERODOTUSAs 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 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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very 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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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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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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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