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

Herodotus

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
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
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
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
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom

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

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