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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.

Herodotus

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.
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Beginning End Together
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy

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