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.
HERODOTUSSome 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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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 most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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Unless 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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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