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It is better to be envied than pitied.

Herodotus

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
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
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

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