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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Herodotus

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas 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
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
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
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
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
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
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember

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