Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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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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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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