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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

It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
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
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
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
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy

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