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

Herodotus

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
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
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
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
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
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
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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