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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

Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
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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Happiness Humble Life Reality
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
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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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments

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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