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

Herodotus

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
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
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
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
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
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
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

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

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