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The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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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.

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Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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

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When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

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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.

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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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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.

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

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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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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

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The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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The destiny of man is in his own soul.

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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.

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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.

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

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In soft regions are born soft men.

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Great things are won by great dangers.

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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

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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.

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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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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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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

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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.

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