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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

Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom

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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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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