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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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