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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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