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.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
More Herodotus Quotes
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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 king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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