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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Herodotus

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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life 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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Fortune Luck Men Side
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

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