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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Herodotus

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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
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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Age Chilren Education
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 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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Fortune Luck Men Side
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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