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.
HERODOTUSWhen life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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