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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Herodotus

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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