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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.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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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Body Food Health Soul
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
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery

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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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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