It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUSThere is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
More Herodotus Quotes
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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 Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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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 sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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