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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Battle Fight Memories
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
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
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Evil Fear Heart Suffering
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
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
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War

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