Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSRemember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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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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