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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Some 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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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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