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.
HERODOTUSIt 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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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