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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

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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Fortune Luck Men Side
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule

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