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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Herodotus

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
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 am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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 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
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

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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