Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
HERODOTUSIf someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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