When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
HERODOTUSOf all possessions a friend is the most precious.
More Herodotus Quotes
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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