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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Herodotus

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
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst

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