Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUSLet there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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