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

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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
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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
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
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War

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