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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

Herodotus

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
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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
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
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men

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