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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Herodotus

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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 a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

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