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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.

Herodotus

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
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
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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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Fortune Luck Men Side
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View

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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