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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 king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying

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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