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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.

Herodotus

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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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Age Chilren Education
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View

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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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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