In soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUSForce has no place where there is need of skill.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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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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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