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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.

Herodotus

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
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
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
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
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance

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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