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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

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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
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Greatness Human Kings Power
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Death Happy Men
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
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
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
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Goodness Kings Oneself Rule
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
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Fun Himself Men relief Serious

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

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