The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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