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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Herodotus

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
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
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
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
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

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