There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUSCall no man happy before he dies.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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 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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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