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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.

Herodotus

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUS

Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUS

Death Happy Men
Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUS

Business Failure Haste
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
HERODOTUS

Beginning End Together
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
HERODOTUS

Body Food Health Soul
Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUS

Death Happiness Himself Men
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUS

Country Egypt World
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
HERODOTUS

Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUS

Force Military Need Skill
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.
HERODOTUS

Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUS

Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUS

Ears Eye Trust
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUS

Alone Ships Wall
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUS

Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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.
HERODOTUS

Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUS

Character Clothes Modesty Remember

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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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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