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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

My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
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
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

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