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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Some 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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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result

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