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

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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
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
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
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women

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