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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

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
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
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time

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