Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUSHistory is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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