We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUSOf all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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