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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

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste

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