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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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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 better to be envied than pitied.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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