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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

Herodotus

Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
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

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