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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

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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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk 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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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 most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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

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