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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace 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
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time

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