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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
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
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

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