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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
HERODOTUS

Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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 worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst

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