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It is better to be envied than pitied.

Herodotus

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
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time

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