In soft regions are born soft men.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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