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.
HERODOTUSThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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