It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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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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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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