Call no man happy before he dies.
HERODOTUSIf 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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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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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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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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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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The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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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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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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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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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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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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