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

Herodotus

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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible 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 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
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
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War

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