"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
-Herodotus
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"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men."
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"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."
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"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
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"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
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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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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
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"It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave."
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
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