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

Herodotus

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
HERODOTUS

Death Life Refuge
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust

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