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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

Herodotus

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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 [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
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
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 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

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