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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Herodotus

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
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
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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

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