The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
HERODOTUSBefore a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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