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
HERODOTUSIn soft regions are born soft men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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