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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
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
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success

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