Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUSWhen life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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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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