Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
HERODOTUSLove of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
More Herodotus Quotes
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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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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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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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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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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