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Chances rule men and not men chances.

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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
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
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
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
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom

Chances rule men and not men chances.

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