A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
HERODOTUSThese ‘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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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