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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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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
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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

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