Force has no place where there is need of skill.
HERODOTUSBut I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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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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