Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUSAll men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
More Herodotus Quotes
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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