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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

Herodotus

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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power

All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

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