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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

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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
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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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy

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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