As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
HERODOTUSMen trust their ears less than their eyes.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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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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