Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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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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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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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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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