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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Herodotus

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
HERODOTUS

Goodness Slavery
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
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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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Great things are won by great dangers.
HERODOTUS

Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUS

Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
HERODOTUS

God Greatness Lows
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUS

Force Military Need Skill
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
HERODOTUS

Better Envy
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.
HERODOTUS

Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
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.
HERODOTUS

Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
HERODOTUS

Forever History Time
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
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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Age Chilren Education
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love

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