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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus
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It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
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A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.
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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
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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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The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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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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For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
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