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So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
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Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
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Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
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Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
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He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
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Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon? Antagoras replied, Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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Character is long-standing habit.
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, I'll lay my life, said he, somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'
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Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
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When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
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To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
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Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.
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