It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUSThe worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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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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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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