The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
HERODOTUSIn peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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