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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Herodotus

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
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
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

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