The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
HERODOTUSIt is better to be envied than pitied.
More Herodotus Quotes
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If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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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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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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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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