Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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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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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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 a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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