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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Herodotus

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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 king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
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
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust

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