The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
HERODOTUSIt is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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