My men have become women, but the women men.
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.
More Herodotus Quotes
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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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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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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