The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUSGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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.
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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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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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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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