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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

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
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
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself

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