It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
HERODOTUSThese ‘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.
More Herodotus Quotes
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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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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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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.
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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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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