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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Herodotus

The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
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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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
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
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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