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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.

Herodotus

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
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
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
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
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
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
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain

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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