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The whole life of man is but a point of
time
; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
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Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what
time
can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and
time
it had been born into the world to enjoy.
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It is no great wonder if in long process of
time
, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
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Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some
time
they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter articulated next summer.
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And it is said that when he took his seat for the first
time
under the golden canopy on the royal throne, Demaratus the Corinthian, a well-meaning man and a friend of Alexander's, as he had been of Alexander's father, burst into tears, as old men will, and declared that those Hellenes were deprived of great pleasure who had died before seeing Alexander seated on the throne of Dareius.
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The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same
time
see both forward and backward.
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Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the
time
of Asclepiades.
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what
time
was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
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Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the
time
of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in
times
of disaster and ill fortune.
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Themistocles said to Antiphales, "
Time
, young man, has taught us both a lesson".
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Though others before him had triumphed three
times
, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.
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When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that
time
had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Born:
46
Died:
127
(aged 81)
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