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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Fortunate Happiness Men Rich
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
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

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