One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
More Herodotus Quotes
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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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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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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