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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich

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