Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
HERODOTUSWhere even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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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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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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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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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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