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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Herodotus

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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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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Body Food Health Soul
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

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