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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
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
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
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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

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