If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
HERODOTUSThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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