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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
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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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows

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