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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Herodotus

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
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

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

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