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

Herodotus

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
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
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
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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 is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule

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