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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
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In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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