Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUSI am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
More Herodotus Quotes
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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As 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 most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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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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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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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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