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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

Herodotus

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
HERODOTUS

Believe Bound Cases Myself
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
HERODOTUS

Naked Respect Women
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
HERODOTUS

Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
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.
HERODOTUS

Fun Himself Men relief Serious
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
HERODOTUS

Happiness Human Philosophy Remain
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
HERODOTUS

Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
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.
HERODOTUS

Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
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
HERODOTUS

Bidding Choice Men Nation World
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.
HERODOTUS

Enjoyment Favour God Reason Success
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
HERODOTUS

History Imagination Movement War
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
HERODOTUS

Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
HERODOTUS

Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUS

Death Happiness Himself Men
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HERODOTUS

Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
Haste in every business brings failures.
HERODOTUS

Business Failure Haste

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