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.
HERODOTUSHow 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.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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