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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.

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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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
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
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
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
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
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
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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