But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
HERODOTUSHistory is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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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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