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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Herodotus

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
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
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill

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