When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
HERODOTUSThe worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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