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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women

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