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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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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
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
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich

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