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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
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
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill

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