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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

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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
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
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women

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