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.
HERODOTUSIt [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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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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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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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 trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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