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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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 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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom

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

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