The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
HERODOTUSGod does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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