Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
HERODOTUSWhere even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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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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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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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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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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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