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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Herodotus

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
HERODOTUS

God Help Islands Poor
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 ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy 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
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance 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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men

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