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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Herodotus

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
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember

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