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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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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
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 worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature

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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