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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.

Herodotus

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
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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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
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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Battle Fight Memories
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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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Body Food Health Soul
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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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success

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