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.
HERODOTUSThe 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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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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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 ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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