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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

The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
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 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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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Himself Men Politics Rule

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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