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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Herodotus

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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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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