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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
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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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In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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This king Sesostris divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.
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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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