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Great things are won by great dangers.

Herodotus

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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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 the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy

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