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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.

Herodotus

Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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
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
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
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
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

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