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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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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

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