I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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