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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Herodotus

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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