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.
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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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