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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

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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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule

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