It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUSMy men have become women, but the women men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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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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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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 have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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