He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
HERODOTUSLet there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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 Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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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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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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