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Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus

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
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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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
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
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
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule

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