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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Herodotus

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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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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Fortune Luck Men Side
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
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

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