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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

Herodotus

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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

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