A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
HERODOTUSThe ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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