Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSGreat things are won by great dangers.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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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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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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