I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUSChances rule men and not men chances.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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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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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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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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