As 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.
HERODOTUSGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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