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

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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
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
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 most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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