The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
HERODOTUSThe most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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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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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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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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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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