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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

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
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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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
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
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust

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

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