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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men 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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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