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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
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 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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
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
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
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
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 am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women

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