Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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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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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

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In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

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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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