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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Herodotus

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Naked Respect Women
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
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
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Goodness Slavery
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
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
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
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
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
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 period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Age Chilren Education
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
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

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