The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HERODOTUSHe 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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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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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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Great things are won by great dangers.
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