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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

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
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

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