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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
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
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
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
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
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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Country Egypt World
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

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