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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
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
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

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

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