Great things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUSA multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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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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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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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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