Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUSThe ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
More Herodotus Quotes
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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