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

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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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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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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