The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUSGreat things are won by great dangers.
More Herodotus Quotes
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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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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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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