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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
HerodotusHerodotus It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
HerodotusHerodotus 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.
HerodotusHerodotus Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
HerodotusHerodotus It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HerodotusHerodotus The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
HerodotusHerodotus Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
HerodotusHerodotus Haste in every business brings failures.
HerodotusHerodotus The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HerodotusHerodotus As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
HerodotusHerodotus The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
HerodotusHerodotus It is better to be envied than pitied.
HerodotusHerodotus 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.
HerodotusHerodotus The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HerodotusHerodotus Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HerodotusHerodotus Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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