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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

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
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
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
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom

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