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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

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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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
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
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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy

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