Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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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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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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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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 secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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