God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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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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