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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

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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
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself 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
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 man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

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