A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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