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.
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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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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