The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUSDreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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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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