The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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 secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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 Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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