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.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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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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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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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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