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

Herodotus

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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

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