Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUSGreat things are won by great dangers.
More Herodotus Quotes
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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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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