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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

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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
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
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
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
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
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 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

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

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