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.
HERODOTUSBut 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 secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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