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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

Herodotus

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUS

Believe Bound Cases Myself
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
HERODOTUS

Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness Humble Life Reality
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUS

Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
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
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUS

Death Happy Men
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
HERODOTUS

Ourselves Shine War
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 is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUS

Ears Eye Trust
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
HERODOTUS

Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
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.
HERODOTUS

Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
HERODOTUS

Bidding Choice Men Nation World

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