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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

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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
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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time

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