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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

Herodotus

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill

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