Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUSBefore a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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