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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

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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
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
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials

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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