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

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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
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

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