Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUSIt is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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