Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUSEnvy 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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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