Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
HERODOTUSLove of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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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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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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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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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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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 most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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