Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
HERODOTUSGod does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
More Herodotus Quotes
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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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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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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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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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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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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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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