The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUSUnless 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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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