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

Herodotus

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
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
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 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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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

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