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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

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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
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
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
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

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