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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

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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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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