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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Herodotus

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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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
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
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
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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Forever History Time
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
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
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
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
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 soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain

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