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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUS

Convinced Nature See
Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUS

Business Failure Haste
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
HERODOTUS

Character Clothes Modesty Remember
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
HERODOTUS

Disease Live Long Time Trials
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
HERODOTUS

Body Food Health Soul
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
HERODOTUS

Alone Equality Freedom Goodness Talk
Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUS

Death Happiness Himself Men
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
HERODOTUS

God Greatness Love
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
HERODOTUS

Character Envy Human Kind Nature
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
HERODOTUS

Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUS

Falsehood Lying
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
HERODOTUS

Alone Ships Wall
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
HERODOTUS

God Help Islands Poor
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.
HERODOTUS

Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result

These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

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