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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.

Herodotus

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
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women

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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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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