Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
HERODOTUSGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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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.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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