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

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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men

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