The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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