Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
HERODOTUSThe 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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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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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.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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