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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Herodotus

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUS

Convinced Nature See
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
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 Help Islands Poor
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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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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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Body Food Health Soul
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
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUS

Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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