The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUSWhere wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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 multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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