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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth

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