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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

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