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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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

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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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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