Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUSAs 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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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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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