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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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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature

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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