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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

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