History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
HERODOTUSIt 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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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