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

Herodotus

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
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
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
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War

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