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- Know
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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
- May
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
- Moment
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Some men 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.
- Man
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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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
- Rest
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
- Exposed
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
- Hiding
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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
- Gains
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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
- Men
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In soft regions are born soft men.
- Jealous
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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
- Men
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Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
- Bad One
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
- Great Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great things are won by great dangers.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
- Exceedingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020