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.
HERODOTUSThe Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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