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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
It 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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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time

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