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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.

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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
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
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
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
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature

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