The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
HERODOTUSUnless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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