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

Herodotus

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
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

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