In soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUSWhere even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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