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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Herodotus

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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking

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