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Chances rule men and not men chances.
Herodotus
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
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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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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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The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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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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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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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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