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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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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
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
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 most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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