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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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 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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain

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