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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
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
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
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

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