Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
HerodotusMens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
HerodotusThey [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
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