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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

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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
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
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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Body Food Health Soul
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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