Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
HERODOTUSA multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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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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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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