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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Herodotus

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
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
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

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