Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUSWe are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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