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

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
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
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
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
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
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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Fortune Luck Men Side

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