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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Herodotus

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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
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
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
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
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
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering

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