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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
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
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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