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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Herodotus

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
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
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
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
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
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying

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