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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value

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