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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

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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
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
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
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
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
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

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