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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

Herodotus

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
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 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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady

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