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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

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless 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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