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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

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men

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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