Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
HERODOTUSIt 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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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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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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