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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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 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
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
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
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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