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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
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
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

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