The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
HERODOTUSA woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
More Herodotus Quotes
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Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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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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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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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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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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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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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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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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