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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

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUS

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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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 much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUS

Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
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

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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