In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
HERODOTUSThe worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
More Herodotus Quotes
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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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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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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