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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance 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
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Business Inspirational Men Result
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich

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