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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

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
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
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas 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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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

All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

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