We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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