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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
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
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 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
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

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

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