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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.

Herodotus

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

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