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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Herodotus

It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUS

Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine 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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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
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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

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