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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
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
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness

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