Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUSLet there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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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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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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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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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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It 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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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