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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

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
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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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Battle Fight Memories
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
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
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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 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
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin

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