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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Herodotus

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
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
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War

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