"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace."
-Herodotus
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"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
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"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."
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"But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods."
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"When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers."
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"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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