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If 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

Herodotus

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUS

Alone Ships Wall
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS

Foolish Outrage Useless War
It 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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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success

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