Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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 man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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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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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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