Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUSIt [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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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