We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
HERODOTUSCivil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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