Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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