Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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