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

Herodotus

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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People

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