We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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