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.
HERODOTUSHow 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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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