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Chances rule men and not men chances.
Herodotus
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.
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A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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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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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
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For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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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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