Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
HERODOTUSWhere wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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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.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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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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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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