My men have become women, but the women men.
HERODOTUSIf one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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