A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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