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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.

Herodotus

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Appearance Hairs Skin
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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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Ourselves Shine War
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUS

Falsehood Lying
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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.
HERODOTUS

Age Chilren Education
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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Country Egypt World
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember

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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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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