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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Herodotus

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
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
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 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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

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