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  • Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
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  • Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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  • Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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  • In soft regions are born soft men.
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  • All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
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  • Death is a delightful hiding place for weary 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.
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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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  • 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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  • Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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  • The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
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  • Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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