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.
HERODOTUSGod does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
More Herodotus Quotes
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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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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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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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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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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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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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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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