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

Herodotus

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

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