Quote #6

I am going to talk at some length about Egypt, because it has very many remarkable features and has produced more monuments which beggar description than anywhere else in the world.

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  1. It was a kind of Cadmean victory.
  2. From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.
  3. In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
  4. 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 withou…
  5. These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time, the first a Pelasgian and the second an Hellenic people. The Pelasgian s…
  6. It is better to be envied than pitied.
  7. Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
  8. Force has no place where there is need of skill.

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