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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

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
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
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
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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

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