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.
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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The 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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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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 am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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