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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
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
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

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