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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

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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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Appearance Hairs Skin
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule

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