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.
HERODOTUSDreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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