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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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 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
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
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
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education

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