I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUSIt [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
More Herodotus Quotes
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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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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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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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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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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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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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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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Call no man happy before he dies.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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