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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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 Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste

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