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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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