Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUSThe Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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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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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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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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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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