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

Herodotus

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 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
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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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Fortune Luck Men Side
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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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Body Food Health Soul
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich

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