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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.

Herodotus

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
HERODOTUS

Goodness Slavery
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule

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