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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

Herodotus

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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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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Battle Fight Memories
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust

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