It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUSCircumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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