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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Herodotus

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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

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