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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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

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