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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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 gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time

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