Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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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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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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