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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Herodotus

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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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Body Food Health Soul
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
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
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.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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

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