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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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 one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible 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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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