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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
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
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement 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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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
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

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