How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
HERODOTUSThe wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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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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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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