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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.

Herodotus

Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying

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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