The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
HERODOTUSIllness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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