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.
HERODOTUSHistory is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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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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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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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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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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