The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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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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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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