How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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