It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUSChances rule men and not men chances.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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How 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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