These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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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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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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