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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

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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 worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
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
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
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
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
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
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering

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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