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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

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
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
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men

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