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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

Herodotus

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUS

Believe Bound Cases Myself
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men

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