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.
HERODOTUSWhere even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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Great things are won by great dangers.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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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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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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