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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

Herodotus

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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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Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS

Better Envy One Liner
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUS

Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
HERODOTUS

Goodness Slavery
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HERODOTUS

Effort Evil Philosophy War
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
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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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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God Help Islands Poor
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
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
The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
HERODOTUS

Greatness Human Kings Power
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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Belief Blessing End God Hope Oneself
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust

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