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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

Herodotus

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Chances rule men and not men chances.
HERODOTUS

Chance Men Rule
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
HERODOTUS

Goodness Slavery
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War

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