Great things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUS
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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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