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

Herodotus

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View

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

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