A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HERODOTUSThe 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.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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