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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

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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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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 most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
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
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 better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

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