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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Herodotus

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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

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