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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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