The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUSMen trust their ears less than their eyes.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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