Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUSA woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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