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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
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
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
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
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See

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