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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
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
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning

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