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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success
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
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
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War

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