It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
HERODOTUSThe secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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