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

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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
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom

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