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Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
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
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War

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