We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUSThe sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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 ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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