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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
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
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
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust

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