Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
HERODOTUSI know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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 secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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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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Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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