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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.

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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
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
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
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
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
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
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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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women

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