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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

Herodotus

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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
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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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom

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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