Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
HERODOTUSGod does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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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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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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In soft regions are born soft men.
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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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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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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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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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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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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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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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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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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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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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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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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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