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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

Herodotus

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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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Age Chilren Education
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

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