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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
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

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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