It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
HERODOTUSIf one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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