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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.

Herodotus

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
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

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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