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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.

Herodotus

Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
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
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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men

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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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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