Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUSOne 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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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