Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUSGod does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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 trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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