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.
HERODOTUSAs 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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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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