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.
HERODOTUSI am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
More Herodotus Quotes
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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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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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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