Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUSOne 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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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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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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too 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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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