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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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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
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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