The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
HERODOTUSGod does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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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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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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