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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
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
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
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
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time

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