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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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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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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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