Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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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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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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