The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
HERODOTUSThe king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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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