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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Herodotus

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
HERODOTUS

Battle Fight Memories
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
HERODOTUS

Death Happy Men
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUS

Eyes Man Music Trust
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
HERODOTUS

Forever History Time
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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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
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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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUS

Falsehood Lying
It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS

Better Envy One Liner
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
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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Himself Men Politics Rule
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.
HERODOTUS

Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
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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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God Greatness Jealous Success

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