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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Herodotus

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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success

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