Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUSThe period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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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.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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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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