But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
HERODOTUSThese ‘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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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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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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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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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