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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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