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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.

Herodotus

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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
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
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness

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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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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