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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

Herodotus

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge

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