It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
HERODOTUSOne should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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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 does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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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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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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