Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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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 [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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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