There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUSMen trust their ears less than their eyes.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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