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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.

Herodotus

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HERODOTUS

Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
HERODOTUS

Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men 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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men 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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