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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Herodotus

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying

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