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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Herodotus

It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
HERODOTUS

Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS

Foolish Outrage Useless War
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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Age Chilren Education
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUS

Country Egypt World
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power

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