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

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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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
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 better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
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
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
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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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