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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance

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