Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUSHistory is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
More Herodotus Quotes
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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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 period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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