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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Herodotus

These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
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
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying

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