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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Herodotus

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule

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