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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

Herodotus

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 [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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy 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

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