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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
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
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise

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