We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
HERODOTUSHistoria (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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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My men have become women, but the women men.
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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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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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In soft regions are born soft men.
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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 secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
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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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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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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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