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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Herodotus

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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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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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Forever History Time
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst

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