Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUSRemember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
More Herodotus Quotes
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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