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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

Herodotus

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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
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
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World

All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

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