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.
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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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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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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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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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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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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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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It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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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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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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