He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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 secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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