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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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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Fortune Luck Men Side
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War

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