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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
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Breathe Creature Earth Life Man Weak
Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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Change Concern Look Man Men Mind Old Young
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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Born Brave Coward Destiny Inspirational Man Woman
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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Born Brave Come Coward Escape Hurry Man Time
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
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Die Difficult Friendship Greatness Worth
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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Empty One Liner Unsaid Wind
The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know.
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Evil Joy Melancholy Suffering
Immortals are never alien to one another.
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Alien Immortal One Liner
My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius.
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Inspirational Life Positive Wealth
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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Charity Precious
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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Endurance Grief Joy Remember
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
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Against Earth God Immortal Men Thinking
If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.
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Inspirational Master Serve Suffering
Light is the task where many share the toil.
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Light One Liner Share Task Team Work
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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God Himself Listen Obey Particular
Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.
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Knowledge Result

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