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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

Herodotus

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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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