Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.
Democritus
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
trust worth men prudence silly
Men should strive to think much and know little.
men thinking
chance life intelligence order men
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
women man men
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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