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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.

Herodotus

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.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
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 Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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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Battle Fight Memories
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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

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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