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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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
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
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
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
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
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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

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