As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
HERODOTUSHaste in every business brings failures.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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