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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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 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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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

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