Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
HERODOTUSWhatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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