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

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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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine 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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
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
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
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result

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