The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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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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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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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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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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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Some 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 secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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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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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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