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.
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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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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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