Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
HERODOTUSVery few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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.
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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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