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

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
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
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
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

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