He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
HERODOTUSIt 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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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