Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
HERODOTUSIf 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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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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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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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