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

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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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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 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
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women

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