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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

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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
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War

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