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.
HERODOTUSUnless 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.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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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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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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