History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
HERODOTUSHow 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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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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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 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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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