My men have become women, but the women men.
HERODOTUSWhatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
More Herodotus Quotes
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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