Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
HERODOTUSRemember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
More Herodotus Quotes
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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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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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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