Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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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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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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