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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Herodotus

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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 [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

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