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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

Herodotus

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine 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
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
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
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
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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

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