Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
HERODOTUSWhere even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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