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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.

Herodotus

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
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.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
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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Age Chilren Education
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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
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
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust

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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