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Chances rule men and not men chances.
Herodotus
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
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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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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
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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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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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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.
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