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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

Herodotus

All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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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Himself Men Politics Rule
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

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